Symbolism In The House Of The Scorpion

Symbols in literary works can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning. Symbols can appear in a novel as an event, action, or object. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the author, Zora Neale Hurston, uses the symbols of the gate to show Janie’s transitions to womanhood, independence from oppression, and realization of what love is to Janie.

Symbolism is a major literary device that helps people see a book through symbols that often have a deeper meaning. A symbol is used to explain something in a different way, using images, objects, etc. instead of just saying it in words. As you search for a deeper meaning in a work of art or literature it can help you understand the author’s intentions and the deeper significance of a work. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, symbols help reinforce the major themes of the book.

In The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer states, "No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a lie." Members of the Alacrán household try to choose Matt's destiny before he is created and impose false allegations on him throughout his life. The belief that Matt is dangerous, a useless clone, and will become like El Patrón leaves him no room to create an identity of his own. In the House of the Scorpion, Matteo Alacrán is faced with the internal conflict of what his real identity is and the author interprets that he does not have his destiny chosen for him but he becomes his own person through his experiences.

Symbolism is usually used to represent things that are meaningful without actually saying so, you’ll sometimes have to read behind the lines. Symbolism can be used as an artistic or poetic way of writing to represent an idea. There is a lot of symbolism used in the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, she uses symbolism through her character Dana’s constant physical and emotional pain, it’s a motif. The constant pain and abuse Dana goes through represents the fact that whenever Dana travels back in time and gets hurt weather emotionally or physically, she never comes back as she originally was, she brings back a reminder of the past with her.

Many authors use symbolism to help their readers grasp the concepts they are trying to convey. They take concrete items or ideas to represent something abstract.

The symbolism is comparing El Patron to a scorpion. Many times throughout the book El Patron is referred to as many bad names, the most of which being scorpion. El Patron's character and nature though, relate to parts and characteristics of an actual scorpion. These traits being grasping claws, adaptation, and paralyzing victims preventing escape. There is symbolism between El Patron and the scorpion. “‘What about all the presents he gets for his birthday’ … For over one hundred years… ‘He keeps it all’” (page 139). This shows El Patron’s grasping claws. Once he gets a hold of something he will never let it go, just like a scorpion. This shows the correlation between the corruption and El Patron and the scorpion. El Patron holds onto everything he has ever gotten. The scorpion uses its claws to grasp things and hold onto them for survival. This was purposely done by Nancy farmer to shows the symbolism between El Patron and the scorpion. “‘We were so poor we didn’t have two pesos to rug together’” (page 101). “Fearful of losing his slave empire, came up with eejits” (page 197). The second way El Patron relates to a scorpion is through adaptation. El Patron when young was a poor, weak, powerless child. Now he is a king of a drug and slave empire with unimaginable power. This shows people just how well El Patron is able to adapt. He can change between lifestyles just as easily as a

Have you wondered what it's like to work so hard for something and receive little recognition? Have you ever been forced off of your land and have nowhere to go? These are problems that arise in the book The Grapes Of Wrath. The Joads wanted to travel to California because they were kicked off of their land and were homeless. So they worked hard for a large sum of money so they could travel across the country.

La Loca, the families youngest daughter, had an encounter with both God and Satan. She told the people of her town, Tome, that she has been to hell, pulgatorio and heaven. “God sent me back to help you all, to pray for you all…” (Page 24) When La Loca was three years old, she had what the doctors and people in the town believes was a seizure caused by the baby having unknown Epilepsy. However, the way the narrator described what happened was “. . . the little body possessed by something unknown that caused her to thrash about violently until finally she fell off the bed.” (Page 20) Following this situation, right before the family and close friends was going to bury the baby, the casket opened and the what is now alive, little girl sat up

In the book, “Like Water for Chocolate”, Laura Esquivel uses symbols as the base for her story. The main character Tita, had symbols in almost every event in her life. The three symbols that stood out to me most were: Her hands, the cold inside of her and her cooking. The definition of symbols is: A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function or process. I feel the symbol of her hands is a conventional representation of an object.

Celia is the selfless caretaker and mother figure of Matt. “‘He (El Viejo) accepted what god gave him, and when God told him it was time to go, he did it.’” (234) In this quote Celia is explaining to El Patrón that he should not take Matt’s life for his self benefit but instead should finally accept his time of death that God thinks is right like El Viejo did. “El Patrón was capable of destroying a person who angered him.” (235) This quote shows how selfless Celia is and how much she cares for Matt at the same time knowing that El Patrón could do anything he wanted to hurt Celia.

Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. A symbol can take different forms and can mean a lot of different things. In the Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A” is used as a symbol to represent adultery and an inauspicious sin. This sin is so rare and so bad that the townspeople didn't even know what the scarlet letter A represented.

Symbolism is a literary technique that is used to clarify the author's intent. Sometimes it is used to great effect, while other times it only seems to muddle the meaning of a passage. In "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne uses objects and people as symbols to allegorically reveal his message to the reader.

According to the Webster Dictionary, symbolism is defined as being, “the art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations”. Many authors use symbolism to give their books a deeper meaning by making the reader think about the content in a way that is unique. In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, symbolism is used in many aspects to reflect on key symbols in the book. Just a few of the key symbols of this book include Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Mistress Hibbons. Three of these characters, Hester Prynne,

Symbolism is when the author uses an object or reference to add deeper meaning to a story. There are hundreds of different symbols authors and poets use and even more ways for them to use each symbol. If you think about it anything really can be a symbol if the author wants it to be. There are some basic things to know about symbolism such as that the night often represents death and the morning usually represents the start of life, another big one to remember is that usually a storm is meaning that there is a conflict. There can be things as Broad as the sky or things as small as a cell used as a symbol. They enhance the theme, ideas, or characters in a story to make it interesting or help prove a point or

Symbols unlock the secrets of a story. Hawthorne, in The Scarlet Letter, uses many symbols to represent different things. Some symbols represent the same thing. The letter “A” has many meanings, each character has their own meanings, and even the different parts of nature are symbols. Also, apart from providing structure for the novel, each scaffold scene conveys something different. One could say, arguably, that nearly everything in The Scarlet Letter is a symbol for something else.